Zhang Dejiang -- Member of Standing Committee of Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee

20:02, November 15, 2012

Zhang Dejiang is elected as member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Nov. 15, 2012. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following is the biographical sketch of Zhang Dejiang:

Zhang Dejiang, born in November 1946, is a male ethnic Han from Tai'an, Liaoning Province. He entered the workforce in November 1968 and joined the CPC in January 1971. He graduated from the Department of Economics at Kim Il Sung University in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and has a university education.

He is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council and member of its Leading Party Members' Group, and secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee.